Therefore in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak the king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem (because they had transgressed against the Lord)

With twelve hundred chariots, and threescore thousand horsemen, and the people were without number, that came with him from Egypt, even the Lubim, [a]Sukkiim, and the [b]Ethiopians.

And he took the strong cities which were of Judah, and came unto Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 12:3 Which were a people of Africa called the Troglodytes because they dwelled in holes.
  2. 2 Chronicles 12:3 Or, black Moores.

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